Jerry DeMarco

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah police: ex-con admits convenience store break-ins Mahwah police: ex-con admits convenience store break-ins Mahwah police: ex-con admits convenience store break-ins
Mahwah police: ex-con admits convenience store break-ins YOUR READ IT HERE FIRST: An ex-con busted in Oakland this morning confessed to a string of convenience store break-ins in Bergen and Passaic counties in recent weeks, Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli said this afternoon. Surveillance video from a 5:15 a.m. break-in on March 24 at the Fardale Mini Mart at Forest Road and Wyckoff Avenue in Mahwah showed 23-year-old Stefanos K. Papastefanou of Mahwah and a white getaway car, Batelli said. Detective Kevin Hebert, who initially connected Papastefanou to the incident, got word this morning that his suspect was in the Passaic County Jail after …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Disbarred Bergen lawyer gets probation in client fund theft Disbarred Bergen lawyer gets probation in client fund theft Disbarred Bergen lawyer gets probation in client fund theft
Disbarred Bergen lawyer gets probation in client fund theft ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A disbarred attorney from Tenafly was sentenced to five years’ probation today after pleading guilty today to misappropriating a client’s funds. Michael Gidro, who was disbarred in August, 2011 for ethics violations, admitted today that he used $24,000 entrusted to him by a Teaneck client for personal expenses, including $19,000 for real estate taxes that he owed. “I was expecting to cover [the amount] from another source that did not come through,” Gidro (above) told Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Roma today. “You mean you used the money for personal expenses?…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fairview man charged in cold case sex assaults gets plea time Fairview man charged in cold case sex assaults gets plea time Fairview man charged in cold case sex assaults gets plea time
Fairview man charged in cold case sex assaults gets plea time ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: A Fairview man accused of two cold-case sexual assaults – one after a woman who saw his mugshot on CLIFFVIEW PILOT last year went to police – has two weeks to reach a plea agreement with Bergen County prosecutors or prepare for trial, following a court appearance in Hackensack today. Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Roma set the April 15 cutoff for Jose Augusto Masmela-Sarmiento (above) after defense attorney Emile Lisboa said he was still awaiting evidence from prosecutors. “I’ll order discovery, and if you encounter any difficulty let me know about it,” Roma told L…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newtown, CT
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Molinelli expanding Bergen school security assessments Molinelli expanding Bergen school security assessments Molinelli expanding Bergen school security assessments
Molinelli expanding Bergen school security assessments YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli this morning announced that school security assessments throughout Bergen County are expanding. Since January, 166 schools have been scheduled for inspections — at no cost to taxpayers — in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, CT. “The security assessments have been taking place for several years, but requests have greatly expanded” since last year’s killings, Molinelli said. “In order to ensure consistency in the assessments county-wide, and to assist in the timely completion of the work, co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Martin Sexton: 25 years and soaring Martin Sexton: 25 years and soaring Martin Sexton: 25 years and soaring
Martin Sexton: 25 years and soaring IN TUNE: When people ask Martin Sexton the secret to his sound, he told a sold-out City Winery crowd, he says, “Lots of volume.” Sexton could just as well have mentioned plenty of versatility, color and raw talent — which combined made for yet another set of joyous, rollicking, sold-out shows at the Varick Street venue this Easter weekend. Martin Sexton, City Winery, 3/30/2013 (CLIFFVIEW PILOT photo) There’s his beat-box guitar playing, sometimes with both hands plucking at either end of the fretboard, sometimes with neither as he bongos a rhythm. Then there’s his occasional DADGAD gu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck house fire quickly knocked down Teaneck house fire quickly knocked down Teaneck house fire quickly knocked down
Teaneck house fire quickly knocked down YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A fire that created neighborhood electrical problems quickly blew through a Teaneck house this afternoon. The blaze was knocked down a little more than an hour after it broke out before 1:30 at 952 Garrison Avenue in Teaneck, just off Route 4. No injuries were reported. PHOTO: Chris Denton Teaneck firefighters were joined by their colleagues from Englewood and Hackensack (as the FAST team). Ridgefield Park, Bogota and Bergenfield provided mutual aid or remained on standby. The exterior flames were quickly knocked down, with assistance from a ladder truck, aft…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood ex-con charged in stabbing over unleashed dogs Englewood ex-con charged in stabbing over unleashed dogs Englewood ex-con charged in stabbing over unleashed dogs
Englewood ex-con charged in stabbing over unleashed dogs YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A convicted felon from Englewood stabbed one of his neighbors during a fight that broke out as he was walking his dogs off their leashes, police said today. Englewood police got help from their Teaneck colleagues in subduing and holding 53-year-old Larry Dungey in the wake of Thursday night’s assault, which left the victim with a slash on his hand. They also recovered the weapon, a six-inch knife, Detective Capt. Tim Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Dungy was walking the dogs off their leashes on Shepard Avenue, near the Teaneck border, when they jumped on the 22-yea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Overnight Lyndhurst SWAT team operation ends quietly Overnight Lyndhurst SWAT team operation ends quietly Overnight Lyndhurst SWAT team operation ends quietly
Overnight Lyndhurst SWAT team operation ends quietly ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE: Lyndhurst SWAT team members moved quickly and quietly to get an emotionally disturbed man out of his home just after 3 o’clock this morning after he said “it’s going to be war” if police tried to come in. “You wouldn’t have known we were there until we made entry,” Lyndhurst Police Chief Jim O’Connor told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Neigbors in the multi-family house on Second Avenue called police because the 40-year-old man was blasting music in the middle of the night. He refused to open the door when responding officers knocked, then made the comment that raised …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack man who stabbed intruder charged with attempted murder Hackensack man who stabbed intruder charged with attempted murder Hackensack man who stabbed intruder charged with attempted murder
Hackensack man who stabbed intruder charged with attempted murder ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A Hackensack tenant is facing attempted murder charges after he stabbed a Ridgefield man who broke into his home carrying a tire iron in a fight over the intruder’s wife. A grand jury in Bergen County returned indictments this week against both Marcel Alcala, for armed burglary and weapons possession, and Robert Leonardis – who, along with the attempted murder counts, is charged with both second- and third-degree aggravated assault (one count with a deadly weapon) and a weapons offense. Alcala forced his way into Leonardis’s apartment, brandishing a tire iron, on …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Correction (3/26/2013) Correction (3/26/2013) Correction (3/26/2013)
Correction (3/26/2013) CORRECTION: On March 26, 2013, an article titled “Head of Madison Avenue investment firm charged in Fort Lee rush-hour DWI” erroneously identified Thomas M. Fitzgerald of Longbow Capital Partners as the individual who was arrested. This article was inaccurate in a number of respects, including the fact that Mr. Fitzgerald was arrested.  Mr. Fitzgerald was not the individual arrested in connection with this incident. We sincerely apologize for the error.

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